They are truly awe inspiring achievements. It's too bad that if history is any indication, and IBM history in particular, they will be used to murder people efficiently

You cannot solve this problem with advances in technology simply existing. They have to be implemented. We've had solutions which don't require the masses of people to change lifestyle for decades. We don't implement them so that a tiny number of people don't have to change their lifestyles. You're blaming the victims, a favorite slashdot pastime which accomplishes exactly dick.

Oh good, it beats older models! You can be out of date with just the RAM you have already!

I don't give a shit about Rey or Luke either way, as neither ever existed in the really real world. I'm solely explaining why your argument doesn't make sense even in the context of the goofy-ass pulp sci-fi canon.

This all stems from a legal system which does not require punishment of crimes. This is supposed to make it more fair because we have the option to let people off when punishment won't actually help anything, but in practice it means that the wealthy can buy their way out of it and the poor cannot, and the judicial system is hard on the poor to make it look like it's strict when in fact it's only strict with the poor. We must require that all known crimes be punished if we are to change our laws, because there must be consequences for breaking laws for the people with the ability to actually change them.

In star wars land they have repulsors that let ships hover, and clearly they have input filtering as well given how we've seen people handle controls, so gravity isn't a deal breaker. Obviously you have to suspend disbelief to some degree for all fiction, but Luke at least has actual seat time experience, and the extremely force sensitive main villain was distracted by trying to get a line on the extremely force sensitive main hero.

Through surprisingly small holes, same as every other building. You use split systems where the bulk (literally) is outside.

You should google "mini-split" as no, it is not impossible to retrofit in most residences. It's cheap and easy and you only need three half-inch holes to run two coolant lines and an electrical line through. Pretty ironic that these are in use across all of the former French colonies but you learned nothing from them. Power budget is an issue, but French people keep telling me that is not a problem because of their nuclear program.

Absolutely nothing about talking on Slashdot is like talking in person, so what's the relevance of that? In a real conversation you get a chance to interject when someone starts talking abject bullshit that makes it clear they have no clear what they're talking about. Or, you can walk away mid-sentence. Only on web fora do people get the chance to post an entire screed uninterrupted.

None of that means that response was necessarily warranted, personally I like to save the depths of my derision for people who are actively insulting, with double extra bonus points when they were not even intending to be so but just can't help it. Those are the people who get the most indignant about having it returned to them. But don't mistake Slashdot for a conversation in meatspace. It clearly and obviously is not one.

In the 1980s you couldn't build BESS. The batteries were prohibitively expensive. So we could use solar to offset air con, but outside of that making good use of renewables was a challenge. It's true we didn't even do that aggressively, of course.

If wishes were fishes.

Maybe you can be 20x more productive, but your code is unmaintainable and big pieces of it will have to be thrown away later because it's faster than fixing it. That would be shocking to people building airplanes.

It's mostly just basically big GPUs with no video connectors, that form factor is the cheapest way to deliver the tech. As such it's really not useful for anything other than GPGPU. You could use the hardware to build render farms or something, but it's fundamentally only useful for similar projects. No doubt if you wanted to do nuclear blast modeling, it would be really handy, but it's not going to help with gaming.

Yes, the most powerful models are not available anyway, so the best you can do on your own hardware is second or third-best. Great, you can be an also-ran!

You mean when the models are even bigger? Sigh.

Luke used to bulls-eye womp rats in his T-16 back home. He actually had flying experience. Congratulations, you just did exactly what the people who cry woke do, and ignored the canon in order to try to support an argument.

Except it doesn't usually do that. Most testing quickly at a point in time assesses your ability to pass a test. It doesn't test your ability to apply the skills and knowledge in a real-world scenario, because the tests are so different from the actual work. For the few tests which are truly applied, yes, they do that. For the rest, no, too much of it is biased towards exam-taking.